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Monitoring & evaluation and research Intermediate effectiveness study Based on the surveys filled in by local partners last summer and on the workshops in which they participated, a Gender Development Project review report has been produced. The report shows the GDP has achieved positive results in decreasing the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV through HIV-prevention strategies and interventions that promote both gender equality and women’s rights. We are finding it difficult in some cases to separate the outcomes of the GDP from the outcomes of the other activities of counterparts. To separate out the findings of the GDP we need more research. We also need more insight in how groups are achieving their results. What the exact strategies and interventions are and why they are successful or not? We will therefore especially focus on the how question in the 2009-2010 phase of the GDP. This will also help us to translate the GDP outcomes into products the Dutch STOP AIDS NOW! partners and their local partners can use in their work. Research initiative Kenya As mentioned in the previous newsletter, the baseline report has been posted on the SAN! website. Dr. Kawango Agot, our researcher in Kenya and her team finished the end line data collection this January. Ten local groups participated: C-MEDA, WIFIP, 4Cs, KEFEADO, HSHC, YWCAA, ACK Eldoret, KANCO, CAI and WSP-K. Besides a follow up on the baseline study, with a focus on beneficiary level, the end line research will also include information at the strategies and intervention logic level. The end line report is planned to be ready by the end of May Research initiative Java Since the last GDP newsletter, the baseline report of the research initiative in Java has been posted on the website. Endah Triwijati, our researcher in Java has in the meantime finished the end line data collection and focused on learning if the GDP activities have changed the levels of knowledge of women and girls on HIV/AIDS, and their gender-related attitudes, beliefs and perceptions. The end line report is planned to be finished in the second quarter of 2009.  Extra activities HIV and AIDS in the workplace - and the GDP Besides the Gender Development Project STOP AIDS NOW! also has a development project on ‘HIV and AIDS in the workplace’. In this project, STOP AIDS NOW! aims to stimulate and support its local partners in the development and implementation of a comprehensive HIV and AIDS workplace policy. This workplace policy includes a stigma reduction strategy. The overall aim of this is to support our partners to reduce the impact that HIV and AIDS has on their work, thus safeguarding performance and effectiveness. Click here for more information on the project. As the HIV and AIDS in Workplace project is in its final phase, we are looking for ways to upscale it. One of the ways we would like to do this is to start a trajectory in which organisational capacity building in the area of ‘HIV and AIDS in the workplace’ will be integrated in the gender, OVC and prevention development projects. If you have worked on HIV and workplace issues we would love to hear from you, as we are now thinking about how to integrate aspects of the HIV/AIDS in the workplace project into the GDP. Please write your ideas to Jennifer. The latest news in Kenya Project activities Proposal Process 2009  In Kenya we have received 25 proposals. All organisations from the first GDP phase also submitted a proposal for the new phase. Most proposals for the GDP phase 2009-2010 have been evaluated and approved. To assist in the proposal process, WOFAK and SAN! hired a consultant, Ms Dorothy Odhiambo. Besides evaluating the proposals she will analyse the proposed strategies of the organisations and compare them with previously used strategies to get more insight into why strategies were changed or not. The idea behind this is that the second phase of the GDP should be building from what has already been accomplished and learned in 2006-2008. It should not be a mere repetition of what the groups have been doing before. The proposal process is planned to be finalised in April 2009. Coalition activities The steering committee had a meeting on March 2, 2009. On the agenda for the meeting was further working out of the plans for coalition activities in 2009, including a newspaper article on International Women’s Day on March 8 and the SAN! GDP website in Kenya. The newspaper article elaborates on the situation of women with regard to HIV/AIDS in Kenya and the GDP in Kenya. In the past few months, African Women and Child Feature Service (AWC) has coordinated the production of experience- and evidence-based IEC materials for the GDP. AWC has developed t-shirts and posters, which have been distributed to all partner organisations. Click here for some pictures of the materials. Furthermore, the coalition has developed a website to give the GDP in Kenya more visibility. See: www.sangdpkenya.org The latest news in Indonesia Project activities Proposal Process 2009 Most of the local partners have submitted their proposals to follow up on their GDP activities in 2009 and 2010. We have received 12 proposals in Java and 8 proposals in Papua. The coalition coordinators are in charge of reviewing them and providing recommendations to STOP AIDS NOW! Coalition activities - Papua The GDP coalition in Papua frequently published articles in Bahasa Indonesia in the local newspaper 'Tabloid Jubi' about GDP activities and relevant developments in the areas of HIV/AIDS, gender and human rights in Papua. Read more… Coalition activities - Java As part of the coalition campaigning activities around “Women and Girls are Free from HIV/AIDS” in Java, a 'Walk for Action' was organised. About a 100 people gathered at Monas Park in Jakarta to participate. See the pictures on the website to get an impression. IEC materials As was mentioned in the previous newsletter, Foker LSM and MDM have taken the lead in Papua in developing a manual/toolkit that groups can use with their beneficiaries. Groups have made it clear they need more support for educating the community on the themes of the GDP in an integrated fashion. In January 2009 Ms Diarni Rupang was hired as a consultant for this project. In the meantime she has been involved in the following activities: research on existing IEC materials, first field research in Jayapura and Mulia. In April she will continue her field research in Jayapura and Mulia. On the STOP AIDS NOW! website you can find a newsletter of MDM Papua in which they go deeper into this project. In addition, with their kind permission, STOP AIDS NOW! has adapted MASVAW (Men’s Action for Stopping Violence against Women, in India) training materials on gender, health (including HIV) and human rights. These will be sent to the counterparts for them to use in their activities with their beneficiaries. Often, groups complain that materials on human rights are not accessible to the average person. These materials however are written in clear and understandable language. Interesting publications, approaches and projects Gender equality, transforming gender-based attitudes and behaviours and HIV
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